Patents by Inventor Naoki Hayashida
Naoki Hayashida has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11955302Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a first contact, and a second contact. The fixed terminal includes a first surface. The movable contact piece includes a second surface disposed to face the first surface. The first contact is embedded in one of the fixed terminal or the movable contact piece to be flush with one of the first surface or the second surface. The second contact is disposed on the other of the fixed terminal or the movable contact piece to face the first contact. The second contact protrudes from the other of the first surface or the second surface toward the first contact and include a contact surface smaller than the first contact when viewed from a direction facing the first contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Otsuka, Ryota Minowa, Hiroyuki Iwasaka, Yasuo Hayashida, Shingo Mori, Naoki Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11942297Abstract: A relay includes a movable contact piece having a movable contact, a fixed contact, a drive device configured to move the movable contact piece, a magnet to apply a Lorentz force to an arc in a first extension direction, a fixed terminal having an intermediate portion to apply a Lorentz force to the arc in a second extension direction, and a wall portion. The wall portion includes first and second wall surfaces. The first wall surface is disposed to face an arc-extinguishing space, and is disposed opposite to the movable contact and the fixed contact in the first extension direction. The second wall surface is disposed to face the arc-extinguishing space and is disposed downstream in the second extension direction with respect to the first wall surface. A distance from the movable contact piece to the second wall surface differs from a distance to the first wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kawaguchi, Ryota Minowa, Yasuo Hayashida, Shingo Mori, Kohei Otsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasaka
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Patent number: 11935716Abstract: A relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact piece including a movable contact, a movable portion, a coil, a return spring, and a contact spring. The movable portion includes a drive shaft and a movable iron core. The drive shaft is fixed to the movable contact piece in a contact case and extends from an inside of the contact case to an outside of the contact case. The movable iron core is connected to the drive shaft outside the contact case. The return spring urges the movable portion in an open direction in which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The contact spring urges the drive shaft in a contact direction in which the movable contact contacts the fixed contact. The contact spring is arranged outside the contact case.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Mori, Ryota Minowa, Yasuo Hayashida, Naoki Kawaguchi, Kohei Otsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasaka
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Patent number: 8900775Abstract: A hologram recording material includes a polymerizable monomer (A) that is active in radical polymerization but is substantially inactive in cationic polymerization, a polymerizable monomer (B) that is active in cationic polymerization but is substantially inactive in radical polymerization, and an initiator system (C) that polymerizes at least one of the polymerizable monomer (A) and the polymerizable monomer (B) through irradiation with light. The polymerizable monomer (A) and the polymerizable monomer (B) each have, in its structure, a moiety selected from the group consisting of aromatic rings, halogen atoms other than a fluorine atom, and sulfur atoms not derived from a cyclic sulfide or a mercapto group. A hologram recording medium includes a recording layer composed of the hologram recording material.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Hayashida, Shohei Fujii, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8617772Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material and a hologram recording medium, which are suitable for volume hologram record and can attain high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, that is, storage stability, durability, low dimensional change (low shrinkage) and high multiplicity in holographic memory recording using not only a green laser but also a blue laser. A hologram recording material comprising: a radical photopolymerizable compound; and a matrix which is a dispersion medium for the radical photopolymerizable compound, wherein the radical photopolymerizable compound comprises a (meth)acrylamide derivative represented by the following general formula (I): CH2?CR1—CONR2—CH2—O—R3 (I) wherein R1 represents H or a CH3 group, R2 represents H or an organic group, and R3 represents an organic group having 3 or more carbon atoms in total. A hologram recording medium 11 which has a hologram recording layer 21.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Hayashida, Atsuko Kosuda, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8535852Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material and a hologram recording medium that can stably maintain the shape of a recording layer and achieve high diffraction efficiency. A hologram recording material comprising a photoradical polymerizable compound (A), a photopolymerization initiator (B), and a dispersion medium (C). The medium (C) is selected from the group consisting of: a compound of the formula (I): wherein R11 is a divalent C2-4 hydrocarbon group, R12 and R13 each independently represent a C1-10 hydrocarbon group, k, l, m and n are each independently a number of 0 or more and 5 or less; and a compound of the formula (II): wherein R21 represents a divalent C1-6 hydrocarbon group, R22 and R23 each independently represent a C1-12 hydrocarbon group, and at least one of R22 and R23 represents a C5-12 hydrocarbon group.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Hayashida, Kazushi Tanaka, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8497052Abstract: An optimal recording exposure is determined by varying in the first to nth stages the recording exposure with a write laser beam to record a bright pattern image and a dark pattern image in each stage as the first to nth bright pattern images and the first to nth dark pattern images, respectively; irradiating the respective pattern images with a read beam to detect the intensity of a diffracted beam from the central portion of each image of the bright and dark patterns; calculating Sa1/Sb1=SNR1, . . . , and San/Sbn=SNRn, where Sa1 to San are the intensity of a diffracted beam from the first to nth bright pattern images and Sb1 to Sbn, are the intensity of s diffracted beam from the first to nth dark pattern images; and determining a recording exposure which is given at the SNRmax being the maximum value of the resulting SNR1 to SNRn.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Jiro Yoshinari, Naoki Hayashida, Shohei Fujii, Kazushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8420280Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording medium which can attain high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low dimension change (low shrinkage) and high multiplicity in holographic memory record using a blue laser. A hologram recording medium (11) comprising at least a hologram recording material layer, wherein the hologram recording material layer (21) comprises at least a metal oxide and a photopolymerizable compound; and said hologram recording medium has a light transmittance of 50% or more at a wavelength of 405 nm, or a light reflectance of 25% or more at a wavelength of 405 nm.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Jiro Yoshinari, Atsuko Kosuda, Naoki Hayashida
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Patent number: 8420279Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which is suitable for volume hologram record and attains high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low shrinkage and high multiplicity in holographic memory record using not only a green laser but also a blue laser; a process for producing the same; and a hologram recording medium having the hologram recording material. A hologram recording material comprising: a metal oxide comprising Si and at least one selected from the group consisting of Ta and Zr, as metals, wherein a complexing ligand is coordinated to Ta and/or Zr; and a photopolymerizable compound. The complexing ligand is preferably selected from the group consisting of ?-dicarbonyl compounds, polyhydroxylated ligands, and ?- or ?-hydroxy acids. A hologram recording medium (11) comprising the hologram recording material layer (21).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Atsuko Kosuda, Naoki Hayashida, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8391121Abstract: A recording and reading system for a multi-layered optical recording medium includes: a multi-layered optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers and a single servo layer; and an optical head. The optical head includes a recording and reading objective lens of a signal recording and reading optical system and a servo objective lens of a servo signal detection optical system that are disposed on a common actuator. The recording and reading objective lens is mounted on the common actuator through a minute-drive apparatus so as to be minutely driven in a focusing direction relative to the servo objective lens. When the servo objective lens is focused on the servo layer, a reading light beam is quickly focused on a target one of the plurality of recording layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Kawano, Jiro Yoshinari, Motohiro Inoue, Atsuko Kosuda, Naoki Hayashida
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Publication number: 20130034805Abstract: A hologram recording material includes a polymerizable monomer (A) that is active in radical polymerization but is substantially inactive in cationic polymerization, a polymerizable monomer (B) that is active in cationic polymerization but is substantially inactive in radical polymerization, and an initiator system (C) that polymerizes at least one of the polymerizable monomer (A) and the polymerizable monomer (B) through irradiation with light. The polymerizable monomer (A) and the polymerizable monomer (B) each have, in its structure, a moiety selected from the group consisting of aromatic rings, halogen atoms other than a fluorine atom, and sulfur atoms not derived from a cyclic sulfide or a mercapto group. A hologram recording medium includes a recording layer composed of the hologram recording material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki HAYASHIDA, Shohei FUJII, Jiro YOSHINARI
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Patent number: 8367274Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which attains high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low shrinkage, and high multiplicity, and is suitable for volume hologram recording. Also, the present invention provides a hologram recording medium. A hologram recording material comprising: an organometallic compound at least containing at least two kinds of metals, oxygen, and an aromatic group, and having an organometallic unit wherein two aromatic groups are bonded directly to one metal; and a photopolymerizable compound containing at least a monofunctional compound (A) having one polymerizable functional group in the molecule. The hologram recording material may comprise, as the photopolymerizable compound, a polyfunctional compound (B) having two or more polymerizable functional groups in the molecule. A hologram recording medium 11 has a hologram recording material layer 21.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Jiro Yoshinari, Naoki Hayashida
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Patent number: 8349524Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which attains high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low shrinkage, and high multiplicity, and is suitable for volume hologram recording. Also, the present invention provides a hologram recording medium. A hologram recording material comprising: an organometallic compound at least containing at least two kinds of metals, oxygen, and an aromatic group, and having an organometallic unit wherein two aromatic groups are bonded directly to one metal; metal oxide fine particles; and a photopolymerizable compound. For example, the metal oxide fine particles are selected from the group consisting of silica fine particles, alumina fine particles, titania fine particles, zirconia fine particles, and complex oxide fine particles containing one or more kinds of metal atoms which constitute said four metal oxides. A hologram recording medium 11 has a hologram recording material layer 21.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Hayashida, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8310745Abstract: A method for forming an information recording layer including a multilayer stack of reflection hologram layers modulated in the depth direction of a hologram material layer is provided. The method includes: generating a first pair of polarized coherent laser beams and a second pair of polarized coherent laser beams that are incoherent with the first pair; directing the first pair of polarized coherent laser beams to the hologram material layer from opposite sides thereof, respectively, such that the incident angles of the first pair are symmetric with respect to the hologram material layer; directing the second pair of polarized coherent laser beams to the hologram material layer from the opposite sides thereof, respectively, at incident angles different from the incident angles of the first pair; and forming the multilayer stack of reflection hologram layers according to the interference pattern of the first and second pairs of polarized coherent laser beams.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Jiro Yoshinari, Atsuko Kosuda, Naoki Hayashida, Motohiro Inoue
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Publication number: 20120256334Abstract: An optimal recording exposure is determined by varying in the first to nth stages the recording exposure with a write laser beam to record a bright pattern image and a dark pattern image in each stage as the first to nth bright pattern images and the first to nth dark pattern images, respectively; irradiating the respective pattern images with a read beam to detect the intensity of a diffracted beam from the central portion of each image of the bright and dark patterns; calculating Sa1/Sb1=SNR1, . . . , and San/Sbn=SNRn, where Sa1 to San are the intensity of a diffracted beam from the first to nth bright pattern images and Sb1 to Sbn are the intensity of s diffracted beam from the first to nth dark pattern images; and determining a recording exposure which is given at the SNRmax being the maximum value of the resulting SNR1 to SNRn.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Jiro YOSHINARI, Naoki HAYASHIDA, Shohei FUJII, Kazushi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20120250123Abstract: A method for evaluating a hologram image recording medium includes: recording continuously a plurality of fine holograms, each being the same in size as an element hologram, on a hologram image recording medium to be evaluated, using either one of a two-beam interference between a reference beam and a signal beam both being a plane wave and a two-beam interference between a reference beam being a plane wave and a signal beam being a spherical wave; reproducing a diffraction image by irradiating the recorded fine hologram with a plane wave; from intensity distribution data based on a captured diffraction image, determining an intensity distribution data array and a diffracted beam intensity Is, the intensity distribution data array having the same shape and size as those of the fine hologram; and when the diffracted beam intensity Is takes on the maximum value Is(max), determining an SN ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki HAYASHIDA, Jiro YOSHINARI, Shohei FUJII, Kazushi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20120086993Abstract: A photopolymer medium 10 for color hologram image recording, which is formed so that a color image having a high diffraction efficiency can be obtained by exposing the same recording layer to light at a plurality of wavelengths, includes a recording layer 14 that has a recording sensitivity to light in two wavelength regions of a wavelength ?1 and a wavelength ?2. This recording layer 14 is formed from a material in which a transmittance T1 of light at the wavelength ?1 and a transmittance T2 of light at the wavelength ?2 of the recording layer before recording are both less than 80%, T1<T2 is satisfied, a transmittance T1after of light at the wavelength ?1 after recording has been performed with light at only the wavelength ?2 satisfies T1after>T1, and 10%<T1after<80%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki HAYASHIDA, Kazushi TANAKA, Jiro YOSHINARI
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Patent number: 8080348Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which is suitable for volume hologram record and can attain high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, that is, storage stability, durability, low dimensional change (low shrinkage) and high multiplicity in holographic memory record using not only a green laser but also a blue laser. A hologram recording material comprising: a metal oxide matrix; and a photopolymerizable compound which has at least one (meth)acrylamide group as a photo-reactive group, and has a polyalkylene glycol unit represented by the following formula: —(RO)n— wherein R represents a lower alkylene group, and n represents the number of repeating units of alkylene oxide.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Naoki Hayashida, Atsuko Kosuda, Jiro Yoshinari
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Publication number: 20110287343Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material and a hologram recording medium that can stably maintain the shape of a recording layer and achieve high diffraction efficiency. A hologram recording material comprising a photoradical polymerizable compound (A), a photopolymerization initiator (B), and a dispersion medium (C). The medium (C) is selected from the group consisting of: a compound of the formula (I): wherein R11 is a divalent C2-4 hydrocarbon group, R12 and R13 each independently represent a C1-10 hydrocarbon group, k, l, m and n are each independently a number of 0 or more and 5 or less; and a compound of the formula (II): wherein R21 represents a divalent C1-6 hydrocarbon group, R22 and R23 each independently represent a C1-12 hydrocarbon group, and at least one of R22 and R23 represents a C5-12 hydrocarbon group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki HAYASHIDA, Kazushi Tanaka, Jiro Yoshinari
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Patent number: 8021800Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording material which is suitable for volume hologram record and attains high refractive index change, flexibility, high sensitivity, low scattering, environment resistance, durability, low shrinkage and high multiplicity in holographic memory record using not only a green laser but also a blue laser; a process for producing the same; and a hologram recording medium having the hologram recording material. A hologram recording material comprising: a metal oxide containing at least Si and Zr as metals, wherein an aromatic carboxylic acid compound is coordinated to Zr; and a photopolymerizable compound. The aromatic carboxylic acid compound is, for example, toluic acid. A hologram recording medium (11) comprising the hologram recording material layer (21).Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2008Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Atsuko Kosuda, Naoki Hayashida, Jiro Yoshinari